as an educationalist this one offends me somewhat. The lava/magma difference for me is not important, but some of the apparently arbitrary things you are taught at school ARE useful to know. For example, if you understand the difference between a bacterium and a virus (or a parasitic worm), you won't be creating antibiotic-resistant bacteria by taking antibiotics (or horse dewormer!!!!!) when you have a virus. That sort of utter stupidity which will probably make our species extinct or at least in danger thereof, is the result of simply not paying attention at school. Not that we get pandemics often, but. Another example. If you pay attention in math class to algebra etc., you will be able to look at a shelf in the supermarket and discern whether 750mL of soap at $1.35 is cheaper or more expensive than 1L of soap at $1.82. The answer isn't obvious. Math helps there. So... yeah. Also, lastly, taxes and jobs et.c.. we DO cover that in our syllabus in South Africa. so... depends.

Schools teach you how to think, not how to live...

school nurses still give out mints for everything

once upon a time my math teacher taught us taxes and job money the end 🤣🥲

I took a work course in high school and it was fantastic. I learned all of the important adult things like job searching, banking, taxes, and paying bills. It really should have been required for everyone.

I must say I was expecting knowledge of oxbow lakes to be more relevant in adult life than it has been.

Nah nah nah.... schools, education, should allow children and young adults and adults and elders to fully explore their curiosity. Schools already are training people to be wage slaves. Thinkers, creative people, explorers, people who care, nurture and love. That's what schools should be teaching

Pythagorus. The square on the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides.

We need a class on How to live in the real world, with a focus on psychology, retirement, birth control, & patience.

And thus we develop a generation or three who neither understand, nor believe science. And with no peers who understand issues their disbelief is reinforced. Most science we learn at school is of little use to most people (other than not to gargle bleach) but if everyone gets a bit stuck in their brain then collectively we know a lot.

My high school: Here, learn to touch type for a grade on this 50yo manual typewriter that will cause carpel tunnel and deform your pinky fingers. Oh, wait, you're in luck! We were able to buy 8 IBM Selectric typewriters with absolutely no memory. (The next year they offer touch typing pass/fail, and you have to ditch class to fail, and the new typewriters have single line memory.). I might be holding onto some old bitterness. I'm sorry, what was the question?

Native Americans called corn, 'maize'.

Square dancing for the win!

High school is completely useless. The only useful thing I learnt this year is learning how to calculate tax

sevie here, in CCA yesterday we did a budget paper where we choose what to buy and take away savings from your income and whatever, and the point of the game was to just have a positive number, even one. just dont be broke kids.